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UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

WILLIAM J. LARGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 380,493,-dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed September 4, 1887. Serial No. 250,583. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. LARGE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Trunk, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of trunks wherein the tray is pivoted to suitable arms attached to the body of the trunk and adapted to swing back into the cover; and the invention consists, princi pally, in pivoting to the tray the arms of a bent bail-shaped rod, the body of which is in one piece, with the two arms at right angles to the body and adapted to be held in suitable bearings at the back of the trunk, so that in raising and lowering the tray both ends thereof will move together, thus avoiding the rickety action common to trunks of this class.

The invention also consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an open trunk made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation ofthe same, and Fig. 3 is a reduced plan view of the body and trays of the trunk.

A represents the main tray of the trunk, to the ends of which are pivoted the ends of the arms Z) I) of the bent bail-shaped rod B. The arms b b and the main body b of the rod Bare made in one piece, and the arms I) b are at right angles to the body,and are of such length as to reach from the back (I of the body D of the trunk to a point a little above and a little beyond the longitudinal center of the tray A, so that when the tray is swung back into the cover E the arms I) b will slant slightly backward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the main weight or bulk of the tray will stand back of the pivots and rest firmly upon the supportingpieces f, while the knobs or steps m on the end of the tray prevent it from tipping in front. In this manner all danger of the tray tipping forward of its own accord is obviated.

The main body I) of the rod B is held in the bearings h h, attached to the inner surface of the back 01 of the trunk, which are open at the top to permit the rod to be readily removed from said bearings when it is desired to en tirely remove the tray from the trunk and as easily replaced.

At the center the body b of the rod B is held by an open spring-clasp,j, so that the said rod will not get out of placein handling the trunk.

I am aware of the patents to T. Glanding, October 24, 1887, A. V. Romadka, August 24, 1875, and O. B. Gaston, September 16, 1884, and make no claim to the subjects matter thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In atrunk, the bail-shaped rod B, having its arms fastened one at each end of the trunktray, in combination with suitable bearings secured to the back of the trnnlcbody, substantially as described.

2. In atrnnk, the bail-shaped rod B, having its arms fastened one at each end of the trunktray, in combination with open bearings se: cured to the back of the trunk-body and a spring-clasp for holding the rod 13, substantially as described.

3. The tray. A and knobs at, one at each end of the tray, the body A and bearings at the back thereof, and the cover E and rests f therein, one at each end, in combination with the bail-shaped rod B, having its arms fastened one at each end of the tray and the main part thereof held in the bearings at the back of the trunk-body, substantially as described.

WILLIAM J. LARGE.

Witnesses:

H. A. WEsr, C. SEDGWIOK. 

